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• Sudan: Hybrid peacekeepers set to take over Jan 1 2008
  2007-12-30 10:20:20 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to end years of bloodshed in Sudan’s Darfur region, a beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan\'s Darfur is set to take over from the current under-
  
• Kenya: Kibaki wins hotly contested elections
  2007-12-30 09:59:47 - (SomaliNet) According to full results released on Sunday by the electoral commission,Mwai Kibaki was re-elected as president of Kenya. Commission chairperson, Samuel Kivuitu, read out the final t
  
• Uganda: Ebola almost out-health official
  2007-12-28 13:58:08 - (SomaliNet) In what raises hope that the killer fever was finally receding, isolation wards for Ebola patients in western Uganda are now empty, a senior health official said on Thursday. Head of
  
• Sudan: Rebels didn’t shoot gov’t plane-says military
  2007-12-28 13:53:44 - (SomaliNet) Rebels in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region did not shoot down a government aircraft, the Sudanese military said on Friday. \"This is just false information,\" armed forces spokesperson
  
• Kenya: Man killed as Kenyans chose president in close race
  2007-12-28 13:49:10 - (SomaliNet) In what police described as the first deadly incident of an otherwise relatively peaceful nationwide ballot,a mob killed a man at a polling station in western Kenya on Thursday. A mob
  
• Kenyan polls: Opposition leader ahead of President Kibaki in early results
  2007-12-28 13:45:33 - (SomaliNet) In Kenya’s closest-fought election since independence in 1963, early tallies by Kenyan broadcasters showed President Mwai Kibaki trailing his main rival on Friday. Although a separat
  
• Kenya: Vice President, 10 gov’t MPs lose seats in polls
  2007-12-28 13:41:25 - (SomaliNet) In an election sweeping away some of the nation\'s political old guard, Kenya\'s Nobel laureate, its vice-president and 10 government ministers lost their parliamentary seats, TV tallies sho
  
• Uganda: Suspected Rwandan rebels arrested-army spokesperson
  2007-12-22 08:52:32 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan government forces arrested 20 men suspected of being members of a Congo-based Rwandan rebel groupa Ugandan army spokesperson announced on Saturday. Major Felix Kulayigye said
  
• Kenya: Corruption whistle-blower seeking to restore Britain\'s interests in Kenya-Minister
  2007-12-20 08:43:59 - (SomaliNet) Saying he is seeking to restore Britain\'s interests in its former colony, Kenya\'s information minister on Thursday accused a high-profile corruption whistle-blower. Mutahi Kagwe, in
  
• Ethiopia: Prime Minister accuses UN agencies of exaggerating humanitarian, security emergency in Somalia
  2007-12-20 08:39:33 - (SomaliNet) During a BBC interview broadcast on Thursday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accused United Nations agencies of exaggerating the humanitarian and security emergency in Somalia.
  

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